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554722 GretnaBear

Stoever's Dam Park
946 Miller St Lebanon, PA 17046
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
GPS: 40.357651, -76.408394

554709 GretnaBear

State Correctional Institution – Retreat

376504 GretnaBear

Annville Historic Train Station
Annville, PA
http://www.fooa.org/preserve/station/

376502 GretnaBear

Quittie Creek Nature Park
Annville, PA
http://www.quittapahillawatershedassociation.org/projects.html

376498 GretnaBear

Annville United Brethren Cemetery
Annville, PA 17003
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 40.32603, Longitude: -76.52291

554704 GretnaBear

State Correctional Institution – Dallas

477834 ruthmaben

Is there a lake here?

376495 GretnaBear

Evergreen Cemetery
Located In: Annville Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States

Coordinates:
Latitude:40.328777440° 19' 43.6"N
Longitude:-76.511601476° 30' 41.8"W

251734

Eeer

378221 GretnaBear

Dinosaur Rock. The boulder area covers about an acre. eology: This outcrop is an erosional remant of an igneous rock called diabase. During the Jurassic period in southeastern Pennsylvania, a large mass of molten rock cut upward into Triassic sedimentary rocks. Subsequent erosion of rocks allowed these resistant rocks to form some of the highlands of the piedmont. The diabase is composed mostly of minerals plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene. Crystals of plagioclase are enclosed with pyroxene crystals, which give it a texture called “ophitic.” This indicates that as the magma slowly cooled, plagioclase crystals formed first. The boulders are spheroidally weathered, and their presence was probably influenced by the colder climate of the last glacial age.

The remnnant of diabase still stands approximately 15 feet higher than the surrounding woods. A profile of the rocks from the north or south reveals a form that gives the outcrop its name—“Dinosaur Rock.”